On This Day in History

December 3

Historical Events

1586 Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from Colombia.

The battle at Eureka Stockade 1854 Eureka Stockade: Claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licenses.

1967 First human heart transplant performed in South Africa by Dr. Christiaan Barnard on Louis Washkansky.

1984 Bhopal disaster: A Union Carbide pesticide plant leaks 45 tons of methyl isocyanate and other toxic compounds in Bhopal, India, officially killing 2,259 - other estimates are as high as 16,000 (including later deaths) and over half a million injured.

1989 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over.

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Famous Birthdays

John Wallis 1616 - 1703 Rowland Hill 1795 - 1879

George McClellan 1826 - 1885 Ozzy Osbourne 76th Birthday

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Famous Deaths

Diocletian 242 - 311 Mary Baker Eddy 1821 - 1910

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Flannelfoot, The False Teeth Filcher

Flannelfoot, a burglar who operated in London but gained international notoriety, would steal almost anything that came to hand – even a set of false teeth!

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